Never, ever use your snake to scare somebody! Many
people are afraid of snakes, some pathologically so. Using a snake to
scare a person is irresponsible of you, may injure the other person and
is traumatic for the snake.

Do your homework! Buying a snake is not the same as knowing how to
care for it properly. It is your responsibility to learn about your
snake and any special needs it will have in captivity. For example,
unless you carefully teach your snake otherwise, many have specialized
diets: garter snakes eat fish and frogs, hognose snakes eat toads, and
corn snakes eat small rodents and eggs (and Java snakes eat
SimObjects).

22 October: Turn in your Problem Set 5:
Part 1 in the yellow folder outside Olsson 236A before 5pm on
Thursday. If you didn't return the Survey in class today, please turn that
in the yellow folder also.

4 September: It is not necessary to buy a Java reference book for this course, but if
you would like one, we recommend: The JavaTM Programming Language, Third Edition,
Ken Arnold, James Gosling, David Holmes. Addison-Wesley, 2000. There
are many other good Java books available. You might want to flip
through them at a bookstore to find one you like. There is also a
Java Language Guide avaliable.